Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Like most other songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman are less well known by their own names than by the titles of the songs for which they have so beautifully written the lyrics: "The …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
The second annual NYC edition of Sparkle!, a charity benefit Christmas concert put together and hosted by Scott Nevins, was held last night (Sunday, December 1) at XL nightclub, spreading ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:55AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2013
...The Preacher and the Shrink is at once unnecessary and despicable...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2013
When last (and first) I interviewed Jeremy Jordan in September 2011, he was rehearsing for the leading role of Jack Kelly in the world premiere production of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2013
On Sunday evening, October 27, Encompass New Opera Theatre honored the great lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, etc., etc.) with a gala event featuring so…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:20PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2013
Having heard that the Soho Rep production of David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette has a running time of 90 minutes, I certainly didn't expect I was in for a detailed, probing examination of one of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2013
... the audience was also treated to dollops of other forms of dance, from classical to tap to hip-hop. All of that fabulous stuff led up to the Big Moment of the Evening, when superstar An…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
George Kelly's plays were tremendously popular and highly regarded by critics in his day....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:48AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
A real-life married couple since 1999, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon have worked together several times before on stage -- sometimes playing spouses, sometimes not. Now, they're taking on two o…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2013
What's the most politically significant date in American theater history? You'll often get one of two answers (or both) to that question: May 10, 1849, the night of the so-called Astor Place…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Millies, Tevyes, Adelaides, and Jean Valjeans from around the country did their stuff onstage at the Minskoff Theater on Monday evening, June 1 as the 62 young men and women nominated for th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2013
Back in the day, the title role in the wildly popular Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly! was played on Broadway and elsewhere by almost every major female stage (and/or screen) star of a cer…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Now he has gone from flying high over the city of Metropolis to ruling the undersea world as King Triton in the new production of The Little Mermaid that begins performances this week at the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
For many of us who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, professional dancers seem to be rare, very talented birds indeed -- and they are. But, of course, they're actually human bei…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:22PM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2013
There's an honorable tradition of excellent plays based on the lives of historical characters, but also a dishonorable tradition of works in which the writers were unable to limn the lives o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PM[SHARE]Triple-threat Shonn Wiley has all sorts of credits in all sorts of venues, but even if you were to chart his career only in terms of his participation in the City Center Encores! series of s…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
In the February 2013 issue of Opera News, director Michael Mayer offered a lengthy explanation of why he chose not to set his new production of Verdi's Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera i…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
Janis Paige was supposed to play Feinstein's last spring, and I had the pleasure of interviewing her via telephone in advance of that planned appearance. But then she was injured in a fall a…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
I can think of at least three major Men(c)kens, each notable in his own way. There was H.L. Mencken, the brilliant journalist-essayist-critic who gained great fame during the first half of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:10PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Excellent word of mouth, not to mention Rimalower's own tireless efforts to promote the show, has caused it to be extended again and again at the Duplex, and he has begun to take it on the r…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
[H]er upcoming concert at The Town Hall on Saturday March 9 ... has a good chance of being one of the most exciting events of the spring season here in New York City.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
The tragedy of suicide resulting from anti-gay bullying is eminently worthy of theatrical treatment. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Andreas has also been a sparkling presence on the cabaret scene over the past several years, and she's now making her debut at the beautifully appointed, excitingly booked, superbly well man…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2013
If an actor works almost constantly, it's a given that that he's held in high esteem by directors and other colleagues. Case in point: Andrew Samonsky, who has made his mark in several notab…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:42AM[SHARE]If an actor works almost constantly, it's a given that that he's held in high esteem by directors and other colleagues. Case in point: Andrew Samonsky, who has made his mark in several produ…
SOURCE: stage.broadwaystars.com at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
The novel La dame aux camélias (1848), by Alexandre Dumas fils, is best known to most people through two of its many adaptations: Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1853), much b…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
How versatile a performer is Christine Ebersole? Let's count the ways. Many people first became aware of her from her work as a sketch comedian on Saturday Night Live. On Broadway, she has p…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
"I don't think I've ever admitted that I was over 50!" Coming from almost any other 81-year-old, that sentence might be taken with huge skepticism. But when Mitzi Gaynor says it, you know sh…
SOURCE: lifeafter50.com at 08:43AM[SHARE]Sparkle!, a starry holiday concert masterminded by Scott Nevins, brought gladness and cheer to the audience that assembled at XL Cabaret on Monday, December 17 for this one-night-only event.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:24AM[SHARE]Sparkle!, a starry holiday concert masterminded by Scott Nevins, brought gladness and cheer to the audience that assembled at XL Cabaret on Monday, December 17 for the one-night-only event. …
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